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A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a … in 1566, but by 1579 the advowson had been bought by John Durant, lord of the manor, 51 and it descended with the … 1965 the then lord, C. K. F. Brown, gave the advowson to St. Catherine's College, Oxford. In 1984 St. Catherine's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, … a single day on successive Mondays following the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (29 June) in the order Oxey, West … farm, received the highest assessment ( £7), followed by John Cocks ( £5), another Rewley tenant, and Richard Dalby ( …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Education Hugh Evans, vicar of Yarnton 1579-1618, and John Goad, vicar 1646-60, kept small private schools at the vicarage. 49 No other school is known before the later … £3 from the Fletcher benefaction and £1 from the bishop of St. Asaph, an absentee landowner. 61 An evening school …
A History of the County of Oxford
… YARNTON lies 4 miles (6.5 km.) north-west of Oxford, on the north bank of the river Thames. 41 The river forms the … (d. 1672) 27 and another, in the late 17th century, by John Follett, tenant of a house in Mead Lane, just south-east … practice of holding fairs on the village feast (24 August, St. Bartholomew's day), 53 and much earlier he had put an end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Local government Local government Yarnton, as part of the honor of St. Valery, had by 1255 been withdrawn from suit at the … and early 17th by malt or malt money received from the parish's farmers. 20 By 1800 and probably earlier a rate was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cousin Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … with other d'Ivri lands, had become part of the honor of St. Valery, of which it formed one of the five demesne … 72 who by 1570 had been succeeded by his brother-in-law John Chamberlain, third son of Sir Leonard Chamberlain of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Nonconformity Nonconformity In 1634 the Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a prominent … Catholic was Sir William's grandson William (d. 1683). 38 John Goad, vicar 1646-60, was supposed to have become a Roman … found. 43 In the 1830s Henry Bulteel of Oxford preached at Baptist meetings in Yarnton. Although only eight Yarnton …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (O.S. 6 in. (a)VII, S.W., (b)XII, N.W.) Yarpole is a parish and village 4 m. N.N.W. of Leominster. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Leonard (Plate 188) stands in the S. part of the parish. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Yarrow - Zetland Y Yarrow YARROW, a parish, in the county of Selkirk, 9 miles (W.) from Selkirk; containing, … antiquity, was originally designated as the parish of St. Mary; its present name was acquired from the removal of … in minstrelsy as the "Flower of Yarrow," daughter of John Scott, of Dryhope; Sir Gideon Murray, senator of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Yarwell 57 YARWELL (OS 1:10000 a TL 09 NW, b TL 09 NE) The parish, covering some 760 hectares, lies E. of the R. Nene, between 40 ft. and 230 ft. above OD. The greater …